Accessible Les Mis

(Icon is of Cosette from the Les Mis musical poster. end ID.) This is a place for image descriptions of Les Mis content.

[keplercryptids]

Hello! Could you explain how the image descriptions [this sort of thing] help blind people? Thank you!

hi! blind people (among others) use programs called screen readers, that read aloud the text on their phones/computers. this technology can’t “read aloud” images, and most of the time will just say something like “image” or “no alt text for this photo” in place of the image. so the only way for people using screen readers to get a good sense of an image is through image descriptions.

image descriptions also help low vision folks, who may not use screen readers but have difficulty seeing details in images. they help neurodivergent people, who may have visual processing disorders or difficulty understanding facial expressions. they help poor or rural folks, who may have slow internet connections where images don’t load properly. they help people who may have images disabled on their browsers for a variety of reasons–epilepsy being one of them. some people with epilepsy disable images so that they don’t accidentally see strobing or GIFs that trigger a seizure. with image descriptions, they can know what an image is of and decide if they want to look at it. and they help people with PTSD and trauma, because an image is more likely to be blacklisted with a description if it includes one of their triggers.

and i mean, that’s probably a shortlist of the kinds of people who benefit from the addition of image descriptions! 

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[heartofwood]

repostin’ some art whoo

[accessiblelesmis]

ID: digital line art of Javert from the chest up. he his wearing an overcoat buttoned to the chin, and a top hat. he has thick sideburns. end ID.

[ueinra]

Vol.I - Book.I - Ch.V

[accessiblelesmis]

image text: It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared.

One would have said that his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children and the old people came out to the doorstep for the Bishop as for the sun. He bestowed his blessing, and they blessed him. They pointed out his house to any one who was in need of anything. Here and there he halted, accosted the little boys and girls, and smiled upon the mothers. end text.

[bam-bo0zle]

forgot if I posted this already so repost,,,

[accessiblelesmis]

ID: digital art of Javert in profile against a night sky. he is wearing a white shirt with his hair in a ponytail, his arms crossed over his chest as he smokes a cigarette. end ID.

[quotesfromthebrick]

[accessiblelesmis]

image text: Marius went away without saying where he was going, and without knowing where he was going, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes in a carpet-bag. He hired a cabriolet by the hour, jumped in, and drove at random towards the Latin quarter.

What was Marius to do? end text.

[ueinra]

— Les Misérables : Shoujo Cosette

At least he comes to their meetings…

[accessiblelesmis]

ID: two screenshots from Shoujo Cosette. the first shows six of the Amis sat around the table. one says “Some time has passed since General Lamarque paided a visit to the hospital.”

the second screenshot is a close-up of Grantaire, who is passed out on the table with a spilled glass of wine next to him. end ID.

[ueinra]

— Les Misérables : Shoujo Cosette

Geeez ur right.

[accessiblelesmis]

ID: three gifs from Shoujo Cosette. Courfeyrac is sprawled on the bed, arms behind his head. Marius is sat at the table, head in his hands.

Courfeyrac: “Didn’t you say you two looked at each other in Luxembourg Garden?”

Marius: “But then, that could be just my own impression.”

Courfreyac: “Geez, you are really a troublesome person.” end ID.

[quotesfromthebrick]

[accessiblelesmis]

image text from Les Mis: AT that period, apparently indifferent, something of a revolu-tionary thrill was vaguely felt. Whispers coming from the depths of '89 and of '92 were in the air. Young Paris was, excuse the expression, in the process of moulting. People were transformed almost without suspecting it, by the very movement of the time. The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls. end text.

[nezoriy]

first valvert of the year for The Rising of Unknown Sun by Dendroica where our old men get to do some dancing in an accepting setting

[accessiblelesmis]

ID: digital art of Valjean and Javert waltzing together in a mostly dark room. behind Valjean are three lit candles in a candlestick holder with three arms. end ID.

[polygor]

Monsieur Leblanc and Ursule

[accessiblelesmis]

ID: art of Valjean and Cosette. Valjean is dressed in a black cloat and hat, with a white cravat. Cosette is wearing a white dress and bonnet, with matching gloves. she is holding a walking stick in both hands. end ID.

[fellhellion]

The absolute “Fauchelevent is being crushed” “This ain’t about him.” Vibes I’m shdhdnfnnfjcjcjc

[accessiblelesmis]

image text from Les Mis: Madeleine turned pale.

Meanwhile, the cart continued to sink slowly. Father Fauchelevent rattled in the throat, and shrieked: —

"I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!"

Madeleine glanced about him.

"Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the life of this poor old man?"

No one stirred. Javert resumed: —

"I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and he was that convict."

"Ah! It is crushing me!" cried the old man.

Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon him, looked at the motionless peasants, and smiled sadly. Then, without saying a word, he fell on his knees, and before the crowd had even had time to utter a cry, he was underneath the vehicle. end text.

[quotesfromthebrick]

[accessiblelesmis]

image text from Les Mis: Every moment some misfortune happened to him; hence his joviality. He said: I live under the roof of the falling tiles. Rarely astonished since he was always expecting some accident, he took ill luck with serenity and smiled at the vexations of destiny like one who hears a jest. He was poor, but his fund of good-humour was inexhaustible. He soon reached his last sou, never his last burst of laughter. When met by adversity, he saluted that acquaintance cordially, he patted catastrophes on the back; he was so familiar with fatality as to call it by its nick-name. "Good morning, old Genius," he would say.

[quotesfromthebrick]

[accessiblelesmis]

image text from Les Mis: All these words: rights of the people, rights of man, social contract, French Revolution, republic, democracy, humanity, civilisation, religion, progress, were, to Grantaire, very nearly meaningless. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that cries of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind. He lived in irony. This was his axiom: There is only one certainty, my full glass. He ridiculed all devotion, under all circumstances, in the brother as well as the father, in Robespierre the younger as well as Loizerolles. "They were very forward to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the cross: "There is a gibbet which has made a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, and often drunk, he displeased these young thinkers by singing incess-antly: "I loves the girls and I loves good wine." end text.

[ueinra]

— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

[accessiblelesmis]

image text: Was not this narrow enclosure, with the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study' and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. end text.

[quotesfromthebrick]

[accessiblelesmis]

image text: Everything around him, this quiet garden,,  these balmy flowers, these children, shouting with joy, these meek and simple women, this silent cloister, gradually entered into all his being, and, little by little, his soul subsided into silence like this cloister, into fragrance like these flowers, into peace like this garden, into simplicity like these women, into joy like these children. And then he reflected that two houses of God had received him in succession at the two critical moments of his life, the first when every door was closed and human society repelled him; the second, when human society again howled upon his track, and the galleys once more gaped for him; and that, had it not been for the first, he should have fallen back into crime, and had it not been for the second, into punishment. end text.

[quotesfromthebrick]

[accessiblelesmis]

image text: Not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting; he did not refuse to close with an obstacle, and to attack it by main strength and by explosion, but to put, gradually, by the teaching of axioms and the promulgation of positive laws, the human race in harmony with its destinies, pleased him better; and of the two lights, his inclination was rather for illumination than for conflagration. A fire would cause a dawn, undoubtedly, but why not wait for the break of day? A volcano enlightens, but the morning enlightens still better. end text.

[quotesfromthebrick]

[accessiblelesmis]

image text: We might almost, in what concerns Courfeyrac, stop here, and content ourselves with saying as to the remainder: Cour-feyrac, see Tholomyes. Courfeyrac had in fact that youthful animation which we might call the diabolic beauty of mind. In later life, this dies out, like the playfulness of the kitten, and all that grace ends, on two feet in the bourgeois, and on four paws in the mouser. This style of mind is transmitted from generation to genera-tion of students, passed from hand to hand by the successive growths of youth, quasi cursores, nearly always the same: so that, as we have just indicated, any person who has listened to Cour-feyrac in 1828, would have thought he was hearing Tholomyes in 1817. Courfeyrac only was a brave fellow. Beneath the appar-ent similarities of the exterior mind, there was great dissimilarity between Tholomyes and him. The latent man which existed in each, was in the first altogether different from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes an attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin. end text.